Brake for electric or other tram-cars or vehicles.



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APPLICATION PILED,PEB.`Z, 1903.

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Patenteduly 7, 1903.

GILESA'PHERTON, OF STOCKPOR'I, ENGLAND.

1BRAKE FOR ELECTRIC OR OTHER'TRAlVl-CARS OR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 732,914, dated July 7, 1903. Application led February 2, 1903.'` Serial No. 141,498. (No model.)-

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, GILns ATHERTON, hatters engineer, a subject of theV King of Great Britain and Ire1and',residin g at Virginia Mills,

5 Higher Hillgate, Stockport, in the county of Chester, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Connected with the Brakes of Electric or other Tram.- Cars or Vehicles, (for which I have made ap- Io plication for a patent in Great Britain, No.

14,901, dated July 4, 1902,) of whichthe fol` lowing is a specification.

This invention has reference more particularly to the brakes of electric and other tram In such electric cars it is customary to employ slipper-brakes acting upon the rails of the permanent way as emergency-brakes or used as brakes additional to the brakes acting on the Wheels of the vehicle. Such slipzo per-brakes are provided with a braking-surface of wood, which l find is not a particularly good material for the purpose, as it is liable to set up considerable noise and j oltin g when applied to reduce the speed or stop the car.

z 5 In the first place my invention relates to the f application of a material as a braking-surface which will not only afford a better contact or frictional surface than wood, but which will retard `the speed or stop the car more effi- 3o ciently and with less noise and jolting.' For this purpose I employ a rubber composition consisting of fortyve parts of rubber, fortyive parts of textile fiber, (preferably vegeta` ble,) and ten parts of sulfur, although these proportions may be slightly varied without affecting the peculiar properties of the composition to anygreat extent. I have found by experiment that this rubber composition possesses particularly eiiicient qualities as a fric- 4o tion-brake and is very noiseless and smooth in action. p

My invention relates also to means for compensating for wear of the rubber brake block 0r shoe, so that it need not be discarded when the thickness of the shoe is only worn away to a slight extent, as is the case at present, and further to an improved means for readily securing the friction shoe to the permanent i block. y p p 5o Figure l of the drawings attached hereto Ashows in cross-section a brake-block made from the rubber composition above described ing the rubber friction block or shoe to the permanent block. Fig. 2 is a side elevation 'of Fig. l, but on a scale of half-size. Fig. 3

shows in cross-section a modification of the rubber-co1nposition brake-shoe and the means for securing it to the permanent brake-block.

Fig. 4 is a side view of the same, partly in section, on a smaller scale.

I mount the rubber-composition brakeshoe a in a metallic trough-shaped holder b with dovetailed or inclined ends c, designed to engage with corresponding dovetails d, formed in the permanent brake-block e. The metallic holder b, carrying the brake-shoe a', is thus easily slid into engagement from the side with the permanent block e, as will be seen from an inspection of Fig. 2, and is securely held thereby Without the necessity of retaining-bolts and can be fixed by an unskilled person. pensate for wear of the brake-shoe a are as follows:

The brake-shoe a is backed up within the metallic holder b by a stout angleplate of metal f, upon the top of which bear two or more set-screws g. These set-screws pass through the permanent brake-block e and are screwed into the metallic holder b "of the brake-shoe a.

thrust out of the holder to the required degree to take up the wear. Lock-nuts g are The means I adopt to ccm-w- By operating the set-screws i the backing-plate f and the brake-shoe a are provided to prevent the accidental rotation of the screwed studs. To secure the rubbercomposition brake-shoe ce to the holder l), set-screws h, screwed into the side, bear upon the side web of the angle-plate f and serve to jam the whole within the holder b.

To reduce the cost of the rubber-composition brake-shoe a, the interior may be hollowed out and be iilled in with a coreI of wooda' or the like material, as shown in Figs. 3 ande.r

In such acase there would be no necessity tov provide adjusting means for wear and the rubber brake-shoe a could be secured to the 1netallic holder h by a simple wedge j.

The brake-surface of rubber composition" may also be used in conjunction with the brake-blocks acting upon the wheels of the This would avoid` tram-car or other Vehicle.

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Wear of the Wheel-tires to an appreciable eX- l holder b and brake-bloek e means for mounttent and lengthen the life of the Wheels. l ing or securing the holder b to the brake- I declare that what l Claim sblock e and a Wedge j to seeure the rubberl 5 l. A brake shoe or block as a Contact brakcomposition brake-shoe d Within the holder 5 ing-surface for the permanent Way of tramb substantially as described.

Way systems, or the Wheels of tram-ears and In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my 'other Vehicles, consisting of rubber oomposhand in presence of two Witnesses.

tion of forty-ve parts of rubber, forty-ve 1 f n parts of textile ber and ten parts of sulfur GILLS AFHERI ON' 1o or thereabout substantially as described. Witnesses:

2. In combination the rubber-composition JOSHUA ENTWISLE, brake-shoe a having a core of Wood e, the ALFRED YATES. 

